Apple CEO Tim Cook Has a Theory About Trump's Twitter Account

"I can tell college students are behind it"

Giving the commencement address to the MIT class of 2017 on Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged the long history of pranks — known as hacks at MIT, of course — at the Cambridge, Massachusetts school.

Cook attended and gradated from Auburn University with a degree in industrial engineering and then an MBA from Duke.

He told the graduates that he went to graduate school, looking for the answer to questions about his purpose in life. He was lost, he said.

“In a moment of indiscretion,” Cook said, pausing, before saying, “I might have even experimented … with a Windows PC.”

Cook said that twenty years ago, his search for purpose brought him to Apple, when Steve Jobs had just launched its famous “Think Different” campaign.

“Before that moment, I had never met a leader with such passion or uncounted a company with such a clear and compelling purpose to serve humanity” Cook said of Jobs and Apple.

Reading from a teleprompter, Cook asserted that solutions to various problems, “from cancer to climate change to educational inequality” will be brought forth with the help of technology.

Cook said that technology can also be a contributor to the world’s problems, bringing up his meeting with Pope Francis in 2016: “[The Pope] expressed a shared concern in a powerful new way, never has humanity had such power over itself, yet nothing ensures that it will be used wisely.”

Cook brought up “fake news,” of course, saying that social media turns people anti-social. “Technology is capable of doing great things but it doesn’t want to do great things, it doesn’t want anything. That part takes all of us.”

He also touched on AI, saying, “I’m not worried about artificial intelligence giving computers the ability to think like humans, I’m more concerned about people thinking like computers, without values or compassion, without concern for consequences.”